Definitions for ravening

ravening rav·en·ing

Spelling: [rav-uh-ning]
IPA: /ˈræv ə nɪŋ/

Ravening is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 257 anagrams from letters in ravening (aeginnrv).

Definitions for ravening

noun

  1. rapacity.
  2. rapine; robbery.
  3. plunder or prey.

adjective

  1. rapacious; voracious.

verb (used with object)

  1. to seize as spoil or prey.
  2. to devour voraciously.

verb (used without object)

  1. to seek plunder or prey.
  2. to eat or feed voraciously or greedily:
  3. to have a ravenous appetite.

Origin of ravening

First recorded in 1520-30; raven2 + -ing2, -ing1

Examples for ravening

Ever since you have been wanting to show your bravery, you have been howling like a ravening wolf.

At one o'clock the four elder ones would be upon her, ravening.

They fall often as victims to the ravening ambition of a single man.

Our American birthright, this ravening resides in our molecules and has from minute one.

Within thee there is ravening, but the outside thou makest clean.

"She was a ravening beast," the man in tweeds started again.

Their ravening lusts will consume thee to the soul, O woman!

Has ravening aspiration any compunction; any contrite visitings of nature?

What manner Syrt, what ravening Scylla, what vasty Charybdis?

Between that ravening surface and the armor skin of the Boise there was nothing.

Word Value for ravening
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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